And emil bersbach



No. 624,639. Patented May 9, I899.

W. A. FRAZEE &. E. BERSBACH. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

(Application filed Nov. 22, 1391. (No Model.)

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ATTORNEY.

W/TNESSES IATENT OFFICE WILLIAM A. FRAZEE, OF NEIVARK, NEW JERSEY, AND EMIL BERSBAOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE TABLET 85 TICKET COMPANY,

.OF ILLINOIS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,639, dated May 9, 1899.

Application filed November 22,1897. Serial No. 659,385. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may comcer'n:

Be it known that we, WVILLIAM A. FRAZEE, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and EMIL BERSBAOI-I, of New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to advertising devices; and the primary object thereof is to provide a device which is attractive in appearance, which can be'sold at a nominal cost, and which is so made and arranged that advertising or like matter may be printed or otherwise produced thereon without marring or detracting from the value and attractivene'ss of the device. Z

Other objects are to provide a simple and efficient device which may be used for various purposes and to provide a devicein which a figure, as a bird, may be removably balanced on a support, so as to be capable of assuming various positions thereon.

The invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and then pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawings, wherein similar figures of reference designate similar parts, Figure 1 is a general perspective view of one form of device embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the device.

The frame 10 may be of any desired form or material and, as shown, has an opening 11 therethrough, forming an annulus or ring, upon either or both faces of which may be arranged suitable advertising matter, which may be printed or otherwise produced thereon. This frame may be made of card or paste board and may have an eyelet or aperture in the upper portion thereof, through which may pass a cord 12 or other connection in order that the frame may be readily suspended.

A support, as the wire 13, may extend across the opening 11 and may have its ends passed through apertures in the ring or frame 10 and bent so as to rigidly hold the wire in position. The wire 13 is adapted to support a figure, as 14, which may be made of cardboard or other suitable material and to represent a person, animal, or other object, as a parrot, as shown, the figure having a portion thereof or an extension, as a card 15, upon which suitable advertising matter may be printedor otherwise formed, though instead of the wire the figure may rest directly upon the edge of the frame 10. v

For the purpose of balancing and removably holding the figure to the frame 10 We may arrange upon a suitable portion of the figure, in this case upon that part representing the tail of the bird, a weight, as 16, so as to practically equalize the weight on both sides of the wire 13. A chain or other flexible connection, .as 17, may have one end thereof connected to the support 13 and its other end secured to a loop or link 18, which depends from the card 15 or other portion of the figure. By this means the figure may oscillate or rock on the support 13 or may be made to assume various positions with respect to the frame 10.

We thus provide 'a simple and efficient device which may be made and sold at a nominal cost, which is attractive in appearance, and which may be used for various advertising and other purposes.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A device of the kind described, comprising a frame having an opening therethrough, a fixed support securedto the frame across the opening, a weighted figure adapted to be removably balanced on and slidable along said support, and a flexible connection between the figure and the support, substantially as described.

2. A device of the kind described, comprising a frame having an opening therethrough forming an annulus or ring and means for suspending the frame, a wire secured to-the ring across the opening, a figure, as a bird, having an extension thereof arranged for advertising matter and weighted so as to be removably held to the support, and a chain connecting the figure tothe support, substantially as described.

WILLIAM A. FRAZEE. EMIL BERSBAOH.

Witnesses: I

W. B. HUTCHINSON, BERTHA DEYO. 

